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title: “Send for Tibraide’ till I apologise,” he cried. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Send for Tibraide’ till I apologise,” he cried. Who acts: you, Tibraide. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 34

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“Send for Tibraide’ till I apologise,” he cried.

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**Who acts:** you, Tibraide · **What happens:** send, apologise, cry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Tibraide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:88:34
# text = “Send for Tibraide’ till I apologise,” he cried.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	apologise	apologise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Tibraide | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* *in a quote* | present | Tibraide |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Tibraide |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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